At Bar Mills the Saco River bends wide and slow, and the village lawns above it hold their green well into September. Black Bear Landscaping & Design mows across Buxton — weekly cuts, string trimming, crisp edging along walks and driveways, and the cleanups that bookend the growing season. The town is a handful of villages strung along the river, so a day's route runs past dams, old mill foundations and long field lots. There is real pleasure in the moment a shaggy yard turns into clean lines and nothing else about the place changes at all. Buxton grass grows hard in June, and the schedule keeps up with it.